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Title: Virginias State Improvement Grant and State Personnel Development Grant


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Virginias State Improvement Grant and State
Personnel Development Grant
  • The Content Literacy Continuum Response to
    Intervention

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  • Ive Been Thinking
  • The Content Literacy Continuum is like .
  • a secondary RTI model.

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NAEP Reading
  • Below the proficiency level
  • 68 of 8th graders
  • Below the basic level
  • 26 of 8th graders

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The Performance Gap
2013-2014
2Yrs
2 1/2Yrs
Skills and
Demands
1 1/2Yrs
1Yr
9 th
The Gap
5 th
Years in School
9 th
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Then ask.
  • Five questions about literacy supports currently
    in place.

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5 Questions
  • What happens for those students who are reading
    below the 4th grade level?
  • 2. Whats in place in core classes to ensure
    that students will get the critical content in
    spite
  • of their literacy skills?
  • What happens for students who know how to decode
    but cant comprehend well?
  • Are procedures for teaching powerful learning
    strategies embedded in courses across the
    curriculum?
  • What happens for students who have language
    problems?

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Finally.
  • Use a content literacy framework to determine
    an action plan

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Content Literacy
The listening, speaking, reading, writing, and
thinking skills and strategies required to learn
in each of the academic disciplines.
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Content Literacy
is the door to content acquisition higher order
thinking.
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Level 1 Enhance content instruction (mastery of
critical content for all regardless of literacy
levels) Level 2 Embedded strategy instruction
(routinely weave strategies within and across
classes using large group instructional
methods) Level 3 Intensive strategy instruction
(mastery of specific strategies using
intensive-explicit instructional sequences) Level
4 Intensive basic skill instruction (mastery of
entry level literacy skills at the 4th grade
level) Level 5 Therapeutic intervention (mastery
of language underpinnings of curriculum content
and learning strategies)
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The Virginia SIG
  • Content Literacy Continuum (CLC) demonstration
    sites
  • Professional developers
  • Inservice preservice
  • Professional developer network
  • Develop and disseminate curricular support
    materials
  • Policy reform

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The Virginia SPDG
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Partnerships Alignment
  • Partnerships
  • Shared responsibility
  • Shared commitment
  • Shared credit benefit
  • Deep Alignment
  • Instructional systems
  • Instructional supports
  • SPP NCLB,
  • State, district and school initiatives

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The topical discussions will address
  • 1) Management
  • 2) Content implementation
  • 3) Evaluation
  • 4) Sustainability

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1) Management How to manage the initiative?
  • Identify the demonstration sites
  • RFP
  • Informational sessions
  • Selection panel
  • Staffing/resource allocation
  • Project Management Team
  • Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TACs)
  • Cadre
  • Leadership teams
  • Relationship building

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Virginia SIG CLC Communication Flowchart
VDOE - Project Management Team
T/TAC Team
VA-CLC Cadre
VDOE Evaluation Team
CLC School Leadership Team
CLC Division Leadership Team
  • Ensure District Administrators understand the
    big picture active in decision-making and
    communication loop
  • Ensure School Administrators Teachers are a
    vital part of the Adolescent Literacy Team are
    in the loop
  • Clarifies how Evaluation connects through
    project management and VA-CLC Cadre
  • Ensure all staff have current information and
    understand the big picture not just aspects
    that apply to them
  • Provide an ongoing feedback loop for all involved

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2) Content implementation Scaling-up
  • Pilot stage
  • Leadership mechanisms
  • Fidelity to the model
  • Scaling-up
  • Professional developers
  • In-service
  • Pre-service
  • Implementation guide
  • 8 regions, including large and urban districts
  • Coaching
  • Expertise
  • Innovation zones
  • Concentration of skilled workers advanced
    infrastructure (T/TAC, SIM Network Leaders)
  • Research capacity (KUCRL WM)
  • Policy alignment / waivers
  • Parent involvement?

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2) Content implementation
  • Role of leadership
  • Distributed leadership and partnerships
  • Local Team buy-in
  • Time sustained commitment
  • Research validated
  • Fidelity
  • Respect / co-construction
  • Accountability
  • Systematic factors influencing change
  • Leadership
  • Sustained focus
  • Alignment

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3) Evaluation How to evaluate the impact?
  • Developmental model
  • Implementation
  • Outcome data
  • State Performance Plan
  • 9th grade retention
  • Teacher retention
  • Cost
  • Comparison
  • Aligned developed in partnership

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SPDG Logic Model
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4) Sustainability How do you sustain it?
  • Statewide network of professional developers
    coaches (in-service pre-service)
  • Training/Technical Assistance Centers (T/TAC)
  • Guides for school division level implementation
  • Developing leaders, coaches other staff
  • Policy development
  • Establishing a coaching protocol
  • Alignment
  • Guide districts to plan for sustainability
  • District level coaches professional developers
  • Support districts to implement the initiative
  • ???

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